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VOLUME XXXVIII.
SHOES!
We have just received the largest shipment that ever came to
Gainesville. Over one hundred caseses of the famous
HAMILTON-BROWN SHOES!
From a stock of over
6,000 PAIRS.
We can fit any foot from A to E E, and any O£C $ k
pocket book from AO to
Any and every pair is FULLY GUARANTEED
and will wear like FLINT.
Men’s Shoes in Black and
Chocolate, of Russian Calf,
Box Calf, Harvard Calf,
Cordovan, Kangaroo, Vici
Kid, Patent Leather, etc, in
all the latest toes, and any
last from C to G.
Women’s Shoes in Lace
and Button, Chocolate and
Black, wide and narrow,
heel and spring heel, heavy
and fine, cloth top and kid .
top, in the newest toes, j
widths from A to E E, any
price from 75c to $3.50.
Good line Ladies’ 1898
Bicycle Boots.
Shoes for Boys and Girls : We have laced, buttoned,
chocolate, and heel and spring heel, in the prettiest toes.
A big line of Babies’ soft soled Shoes. Men’s and Ladies’
Rubbers and Over-gaiters. Nice and convenient places for trying
and fitting shoes. Buttons fastened on our shoes free of charge.
R. E. ANDOE & CO.,
14 IMLain fSt.
Telephone
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Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly
done.
Thomas & Claris..
Next door below Post-office, - - - GAINESVILLE, GA.
S. C. DINKINS & CO.
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Blacksmith Tools,
Cuttaway and Tornado Harrows,
Turn Plows,
COMPOST DISTRIBUTORS.
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and
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We call special attention to our
is.T.i'ton.Brown Shoe Co.
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HIRIISOI a HUIT,
Marble Dealers.
Monumental Work of all Kinds for
the Trade.
We want to estimate ) n IIIICC VIT T V PI
all your work. | uAlflbO lILLt, UA.
Thomas & Clark,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES,
Blankets and Turf Goods.
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
J. G. HfflDS MFC, CO,
Wholesalers and Retailers 1
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We invite the Trading Public to Inspect Our
ENORMOUS STOCK
of Spring Merchandise which has just Arrived I
We are Able to Show Some Special Bargains :
2,000 yards white Dimity Remnants, 1 to 10 yards lengths,
value 12 1-2 c, 15c and 18c, -AX lOc ySLZ?cL
1.000 yards white Lace Striped Dimity. Value 25c,
Special Sale 15c yard
1,000 yards white Lace Striped Lawn. Value 15c.
-AX lOc ysurcL
1,000 yards figured Lawn, latest styles and full line patterns,
10c quality, At 71-2 c VSircL
2,500 yards figured Organdies, more than 100 different pat
terns, elegant line colors, value 12 l-2c to 15c, .Art lOc
2,000 yards Percale Remnants, 2 to 10 yards., the 10c grade,
jAt So
2,000 yards Shirting Prints, seconds, remnants, ..._AX 2 l-2o
We are having large qf our 4-4 Bleaching Rem
nants. best goods made, ■ 4. 4L, ... -AX 6 l-2c
3,000 yards 36-inch Merrimack Percales, perfect goods and
beautiful patterns, over 50 styles. Sold everywhere for 12 1-2
and 15c, At IOC
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10-4 Sheeting, worth 15c, At lOc
Our line of Laces and Embroideries are said to be the Newest, Hand
somest and Cheapest ever shown in this City!
If you are not a customer of ours already you should be. We offer
bargains daily, bought through our Wholesale Department,
which are not obtainable by any retail merchant
in North Georgia.
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GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
A. K. HAWKES
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he Manufacture of spectacles and Eye Glasses,
jold in 11,000 Cities and Towns in the U. S. Most
Popular Glasses in the U. S.
. ESTABLISHED 1870.
fl lIIT Ift S 3 These Famous Glasses
I jA U I lUES Ar.s Never Peddled.
Mr. Hawkes has ended his visit here, but has
appointed M. C. BROWN & CO. as agents to tit
and sell his celebrated Glasses.
LIME!
Cement, Plaster Paris.
LARGE SUPPLY always on
hand. Can fill orders at short notice.
WILL OFFER Special induce
ments to those preparing to build.
Lime house and office No. 16
Grove St.
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of flour—pastry 7 , cake, bread—will be lighter,\
whiter, more nutritious, if made of \
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Flour. The king of patent flours, made from the
choicest winter wheat; prepared with the greatest
care by the best milling process known to man.
See that the brand on the next flour you buy is •• Igleheart Bros. Swans Down.” nEwES
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Big let es Harness es best stake. ffe«e anti exaitiee ear jeetis.
FARMERS SHOULD
NOT BE FOOLED
Sudden Rise In Cotton Price
Is Only a Snare.
NESBITT’S WARNING NOTE
Commissioner of Agriculture Exposes
the Old Game That Is Being Played
to Induce Planting of a Big Crop.
An Appeal For Diversification and
Smaller Area.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, March, 1, IS9B.
COTTON.
It is to be hoped that no sensible
farmer will lie misled into the oft re
peated mistake of planting a ruinously
heavy cotton crop, by the recent expected
and predicted rise in the cotton market.
Surely that game has been played often
enough and we have learned its mean
ing!
Concentration should always be the
watchword among farmers, that is, the
aim should be to cultivate only so much
land as we can thoroughly manage, and
from which we can obtain the largest
yield at the smallest cost. But just now,
it is even more important than usual,
that we do not waste our time and
money and weaken our strength by
spreading out our farm operations over
a larger area than we can do justice to,
or than will pay expenses. Cotton plant
ing tune is fast approaching, and the
price of cotton has advanced more than
half a cent! This is the usual pro
gram, and at this hopeful season of
the year, many an otherwise sensible
man, who has resolved on better plans,
sees in this improved price reason for
breaking his good resolutions. Instead of
apportioning a fair amount of his land
and time and labor to cotton and the re
mainder to the comforts and indepen
dences of farm life, he resolves to try the
all cotton plan again another year and
trust to luck, or his time accout with his
merchant, for the balance. By ‘ ‘all cot
ton” we do not mean that he will be so
foolish as to actually plant his whole
farm in cotton, but that he will give his
main energies and his best lands to this
crop. How many a man is now taking
this step, thus preparing for a hand to
hand strugge against desperate odds
from start to finish? In his case the mi
nor crops, w’hich mean so much to
family comfort, as well as to family in
come, must necessarily be reduced or al
together abandoned. The vegetable gar
den, the orchard, the dairy, the smoke
house, the poultry yard, all must suffer,
while the staple provision crops, corn,
wheat, oats, potatoes, cane, all must, in
a measure, give place to the predomi
nating, all absorbing, daily struggle for
an increased number of cotton bales.
This course is simply playing into the
hands of the spinners. The certainty of
a big cotton crop will not only prevent
any considerable rise in present prices,but
will tend to keep the market depressed
while any indication that the farmers
are determined on a reduced area would
at once send prices up. Cannot farmers
realize that they hold the key to their
own prosperity, and that success the
coming year lies only in a smaller cotton
crop ana ample provisions for man and
beast? The little experience of the past
year, and the alarms now being sounded
from one end of the south to the other,
should surely warn him of his danger.
For his own sake, and for the prosperity
of the country at large, we trust the
warning will l>e heeded before it is too
late.
WHAT OUR CROPS NEED.
Our crops need three main elements,
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
Different crops take up these elements
in different proportions, but there is no
crop that we grow which does not re
quire them in greater or less degree.
WHAT OUR LANDS NEED.
The crying need of most of our lands
is humus, that is, decaying vegetable
matter, by w’hich we enable the crops to
appropriate the three needed chemical
elements to the best advantage.
HOW’ SHALL WE OBTAIN THESE?
The all important humus must be sup
plied from the farm itself in the form of
stable manures, composts, by plowing
under the various forms of vegetable and
animal matter, which accumulate from
year to year, and last but not least, by
leguminous crops. These, when prop
erly managed, perform three important
offices. They gather the unused nitro
gen from the air, deposit it in the soil,
and also help to unlock the stores of
potash and phosphoric acid lying dor
mant in most subsoils. They furnish a
crop rich in food constituents. When
this is taken off the land, what is left of
stubble and roots lays a foundation for
the humus, which every experienced
farmer knows, is the factor above ail
others which makes successful farming
possible. Having by such means ob
tained the necessary humus and nitro
gen it remains for us to secure needed
potash and phosphoric acid. These may
be supplied in part by deep fall plowing,
bringing up a little of the subsoil, going
deeper each year, and by the frequent
and fine pulverization of the soil during
cultivation, both of which enable it to
hold moisture and thus convert its .ele
ments to the use of growing crops. If
when the leguminous crops are planted
they are given the necessary amount of
phosphoric acid and potash for their best
development, say 200 to 400 pounds to
the acre, not only ■will their nitrogen
powers be increased, but when the stub
ble and roots are plowed in, much of
these mineral elements will remain and
t 3 just in right condition to be taken up
by the following crop. This is the most
economical and at the same time the
most profitable plan for our worn soils.
Commercial fertilizers, when used alone
on such lands, act only as a temporary
stimulous. The rotation, which legu
minous crops require, will gradually lead
to the diversified farming so much to be
desired. Diversified, intensive, rotating
and economical farming is what Geor
gia and the south so sorely need.
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
Senator Turpie speaks, writes and
reads seven languages.
Much in Little
Is especially true of Hood’s Pills, for no medi
cine ever contained so great curative power in
so small space. They are a whole medicine
Hood’s
chest, always ready, al- ■ ■ ■
ways efficient, always sat- ■ I I
isffietory; prevent a cold 111
or fever, cure all liver ills,
sick headache, jaundice, constipation, etc. 25c.
The oalv pins to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
sl*oo Per A-nnum in Advance.
INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS.
State Agricultural Department Fur
nishes Information.
Question.—l notice what you say in
the February report about making use
of the corn stalks, which have been
wasted heretofore. Please give us a lit
tle more information on this subject.
After the stalks are shredded how is the
fodder kept, and what is its feeding
value? Can it be fed to farm stock
any other “roughage,”
and is there any trouble in getting them
to eat it?
Answer.—After the stalks are shred
ded the fodder may be kept in the barn
or any dry place, until needed for use,
taking care not to disturb the mass,
for no matter how dry it may
seem, there is at first sufficient moisture
to cause a slight fermentation, and if
the fodder is disturbed during this fer
mentation mould is apt to appear. The
feeding value of this fodder has been
shown by analysis to be greater than
cottonseed hulls and nearly equal to the
best quality of timothy hay. At the
Experiment Station farm in this state
this forage has been thoroughly tested.
It has been used there for weeks at a
time as the only “roughage” to the
manifest benefit of the farm animals,
and they eat it readily. On the subject
of “Corn Stalk Hay,” we copy the fol
lowing from Bulletin No. 3(5 of the Geor
gia Experiment Station. These bul
letins are sent free to every farmer who
applies for them, and we would advise
you to address a card to Director R. J.
Redding, Experiment, Ga., requesting
that your name be put on their mailing
list. You will then receive all the lit
erature of the station, as it is issued.
Bulletin No. 34 says:
In Bulletin No. 30, containing the re
sults of Experiments in Corn Culture
made in 1895, the attention of farmers
was espacially called to the advantages
of the method of utilizing the corn stalks
for stock food. It is the almost uni ver
sol practice in the south to gather and
cure the blades, and harvest the ears of
corn, leaving the entire stalks in the
field to prove an almost unmitigated
nuisance and obstruction in the prepara
tion and cultivation of the land in the
succeeding crop; and winter homes and
hibernating retreats for insects that will
be ready to attack such crops, especially
if it shall be another crop of corn. Fann
ers have habitually considered this large
part of the crop as of no practical val-
Indeed, corn stalks, especially of th
large types of coni planted in the south,
are of little available food value because
of the mechanical condition. Even in
the north the old method of feeding the
■talks (“stover”) without any mechani
cal preparation was but little less waste
ful and slovenly than leaving them in
the fields. But the use of machinery
for preparing the the corn stalks, shred
ding them into a coarse hay, is rapidly
extending. A number of very effective
machines may now be had at moderate
prices, that will convert the hard, flinty
stalks into a soft, easily masticated sub
stance, very similar in mechanical con
dition to coarse hay, that is readily—
even greedily—eaten by horses, mules
and cattie.
In Bulletin No. 30, already referred
to, the whole subject was discussed at
some length, showing bv experiments
made, and by analysis that the value of
the naked stalks that are generally left
in the field, after harvesting the ears,
shucks and blades, amounts to fully one
sixth of total value of the crop.
Bulletin No. 36, published last fall,
says further on this subject:
The station has just finished shred
ding the corn stalks from five acres of
corn. The crop was very much injured
by the extreme heat and drouth, and
the yield of grain was cut off at least 25
per cent. The corn was cut down just
above the surface of the grou id Aug.
23, and immediately shocked, placing
about 150 stalks in each shuck, and
tying the top of each shock with twine.
No rain fell on the shocks and the ears
were husked out Oct. 3, and the stalks
immediately run through the shredding
machine, being apparently perfectly dry.
The yield of the five acres was as follows:
Shelled corn 155 bushels.
Shredded stalks, or stover. 14,000 pounds.
This represents a yield per acre of 31
bushels of shelled corn and 2,800 pounds
of dry corn hay, which is believed to be
very nearly equal in feeding value to
good timothy hay. In the above total
yield of com hay is included the blades
and shucks, which are almost univer
sally saved and utilized by Georgia
farmers. But there are also included in
the 2,800 pounds of com hay about 1,300
pounds of the stalks, which are usually
permitted to remain on the ground and
nonutilized as food. This 1,300 pounds
represents the food loss for every 31
bushels of shelled com. The com crop
of Georgia, for convenience, may be
stated at 31,(XX),C00 bushels—sometimes
less, often more. Then, at 1,300 pounds
of com hay, heretofore not saved, for
every 31 bushels of com, the total loss in
the state W’ould be 1,300 pounds by 1,-
000,000 = 1,300 million pounds, or 650,-
000 tons of com hay, a very good food,
and worth at least $lO a ton, or a total
of $6,500,000. or about enough to pay for
all the commercial fertilizers used in
Georgia in one year! This may be con
sidered a remarkable statement, and it
will no doubt surprise many a farmer
who has not thought about it.
I have replied to your question thus
at lenghth, because there is scarcely a
subject of more importance to the farm
ers just now. The universal practice of
shredding the com stalks means a sav
ing of millions of dollars.—State Agri
cultural Department.
Fertilizer For Corn.
Question.—What are the best propor
tions in a commercial fertilizer for corn,
and how, at what time, and what
amount would you apply it?
Answer.—All things considered the
best fertilizer on our ordinary lands for
VOU MUST have pure blood for
■ good health. Hood's Sarsaparilla
purifies the blood. Take Hood’s Sar
saparilla if yon would BE WELL.
NUMBER 10.
corn snouia be in about the following
proportion. Cottonseed meal 1,000 lbs.,
acid phosphate 1,000 lbs. muriate pot
ash 50 lbs., or 200 lbs, of kainit may bo
substituted for the muriate of potash.
On lands almost destitute of humus,
that is, w’hich have cultivated and re
cultivated in clean crops, we would not
venture to use more than two or, three
hundred pounds to the acre, applied just
before or at planting time. The corn
crop, more perhaps than any other, is
dependent on a supply of moisture for
its best development, and it has been
found that the direct application of com
mercial fertilizers does not result as well
as where these have been applied to a
previous crop, and provided the applica
tion be sufficiently heavy. If the ferti
lizer has been broadcast, as for oats or
peas, the succeeding corn crop is usually
very satisfactory, although fine crops of
corn are often made after a heavily fer
tilized cotton crop. As a rale, auy for
mula, which will analyze 7.00 per cent
phosphoric acid 1.30 jier cent potash
and 3.40 per cent nitrogen, is suited to
com.—State Agricultural Department.
Late Spring Oats.
Question. —I have a piece of land
which I think will make a gcxxi crop of
oats, but I am in doubt about planting
it so late. Would the first of March lx»
too late to sow it down? And what
kind of seed would yon advise me to
use?
Answer.-—ln southern Georgia the
first of March is rather late to sow oats,
but in your section, North Georgia, if a
quickly maturing variety, like the Burt,
w planted on rich or well fertilized
land, the chances for a satisfactory crop
are good. The great drawback to our
oat crop is want of care in preparation
and seeding, coupled with the fact that
we generally plant our oats on our
poorest land. In sowing oats at thia
season, our object should be to force the
crop forward to a quick maturity. To
do this plant the “Ninety Day” or
“Burt” seed, on land naturally rich, or
made so by rotation and manure. If
the land has been previously w’ell broken
and the oats are harrowed in, so much
the better. But if time is too pressing
for this, then clear off the land, sow the
oats, al)out a bushel to the acre, and
plow the seed in, running the furrows
close and deep.—State Agricultural De
partment.
Fertilizing Cotton.
Question. —Please tell me how the
elements in a commercial fertilizer af
fect cotton ? I mean w hat influence do
the separate elements, nitrogen, phos
phoric acid and potash, have on the
growth of the plant. Os course every
man who plants cotton would rather
have bolls than stalks or leaves. I know
the probable effects of certain qualities
of soil on the cotton plant. What I
want to know is the separate effect of
each ingredient in the fertilizer, so that
I may* more clearly understand how to
apportion my fertilizer to suit my differ
ent kinds of land—in other words to in
duce the development of w’ell formed
and well filled bolls.
Answer.—Nitrogen makes weed of
stalk, it also has a tendency to prolong
the period of grow’th. If there is an ex
cess of nitrogen it often causes the plant
to form stalk and leaves late in the sea
son, w’hen it should be developing fruit.
Phosporic acid tends to force maturity
and develop fruit. Potash will give
strength and vigor to the stalk. It en
ters largely into the lint, and if in the
form of kainit, tends to lessen liability
to rust. The fruit forming element is
phosphoric acid. Nitrogen makes stalk
and foliage. Potash gives strength to
the plant and develops the lint.—State
Agricultural Department.
Proper Distance For Planting Corn.
Question. —Would not a larger yield
be realized from the same land if the
corn crop was planted in double rows on
wide beds, instead of single rows on nar
row beds?
Answer. Experiments have been
carefully’ conducted to settle this ques
tion, and the conclusion arrived at is,
that the more nearly each plant occu
pies the center of a square area of soil,
the greater the yield—that is, all condi
tions being equal, single rows 4x3, will
yield more than double rows, 2 x 6. One
plant in each hill, the hills equidistant,
gave better results than two planted to the
hill separated by longer distances.—
State Agricultural Department.
Bens Laying Soft or Thin Shelled Eggs.
Question. —Some of my hens are lay
ing eggs with soft or very thin shells.
I cannot account for this, as they have
plenty of lime and grit in reach and are
in splendid condition. Please tell me if
there is any remedy for this.
Answer.—Perhaps the trouble is that
your hens are in too fine condition.
Hens, w’hich are too fat, often lay such
eggs. Try shorter rations and a little
Epsom salts every other day. This may
be given in the drinking water. Let
them have green food, and plenty of
lime. —State Agricultural Department.
Garibaldi's Star.
Turr gave me a most character
istic touch of Garibaldi's singularly
sentimental character. “I remem
ber,” he said, “that during one of
our silent night marches I was rid
ing by the side of the general, when
presently* he looked up with infinite
calmness and serenity at the vault
of heaven. It was a brilliant moon
light night. He said with that sweet
smile of his: "It is strange, when 1
was quite a lad I said to myself,
every man has his star, and I chose
mine. Look, do you see yonder star
in the direction of the great bears
That is mine. It is called Arcturus.’
‘Well,’ I said, ‘shine out Arcturus;
it is a sign that we shall enter Paler
mo!’ ‘Undoubtedly,’said the gen
eral, w’ith one of those emphatic in
flections expressing a deep and abso
lute confidence which admitted of
no doubt about bis destiny.”—Con
temnorarv Review’.
“Papa, didn t the baron call on
you at the office today ?”
“Yes, dear; he was examining my
books to figure out whether he loved
you or not " —Fli»gende Blatter.